OCTOBER 21: Customers wait in line to purchase the new T-Mobile G1 phone before the start of a launch party at a T-Mobile store October 21, 2008 in San Francisco, California. T-Mobile launched of its much anticipated G1 phone in San Francisco, the night before it hits stores nationwide.
Category: Dallas, TX
News 28 mins ago 5:02 p.m.911 issues at Dallas Police are getting worse
A bank robbery in progress usually brings a quick police response but not if the callers can’t even get through to 911 and are being placed on hold. Witnesses at to a robbery in progress at a Chase Bank in north Dallas couldn’t get through to 911.
US equity firm makes strongest bid to buy Portuguese bank
Portugal’s central bank says an offer from U.S. private equity firm Lone Star is the most promising bid to buy Novo Banco , the so-called good bank salvaged by the Portuguese government from the collapse of major lender Banco Espirito Santo. The Bank of Portugal says it has invited the fund, based in Dallas, Texas, to “deepen negotiations” over the possible purchase, though it said rival bidders have expressed a willingness to improve their offers and would not be excluded.